Branded as fashion victims
If shop assistants suddenly start to ask you why you are buying a particular product, how it defines your identity and what life would be like without it - beware: they may be sociologists. For ten...
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Opt-out hordes trickle back
THES reporters unravel the tangle of pension options facing staff three years after the reorganisation of higher education and examine the barriers to a unified system. Pension experts from lecturers...
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The binary line that divides the old and new
THES reporters unravel the tangle of pension options facing staff three years after the reorganisation of higher education and examine the barriers to a unified system. Although it is three years...
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Teenagers feel need to steal for a game
Twenty-five per cent of teenagers would be prepared to steal a computer game if they could not afford it, according to a study to be presented at the BSA conference. Just over a quarter of the...
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Leaves hold key to solar energy
Glasgow University scientists have made a dramatic breakthrough in the understanding of photosynthesis which could open up the way for new ways of harnessing solar power. Neil Isaacs of Glasgow's...
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Culture of convenience from where women sit
Public loos, computer games and trainer envy will all be debated at this week's British Sociological Association conference, reports Claire Saunders. When Cardiff Council planned to build a public...
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Scientists take precautions
The way scientists think about their work is changing with the new "precautionary principle" of trying to minimise environmental hazards, according to the chairman of the Royal Commission on...
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Colleges join federal express
Two new university colleges were created in Wales last week when Cardiff Institute of 糖心Vlog and Gwent College were accepted into the Federal University of Wales. The new institutions will...
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Euro project goes fishing for clues
A European research project led by British scientists could help to determine the threat global warming poses to freshwater fish such as salmon and perch. The danger to fish of climate change was...
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Hitting the buffers
Robert Sheldon MP, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, made a declaration to an audience of vice chancellors this week. He said: "The Universities Funding Council is a splendid buffer." The...
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Jenkin's email
(Photograph) - Jenkin's email . . . Colin Hempstead of Teesside University's school of human studies is to head a Leverhulme Trust-funded research project on the life of Fleeming Jenkin, a founding...
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Paying Peter
Delegates at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers annual conference could have looked a little closer for value for money from its general secretary Peter Smith. Figures just released for 1993...
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Book early
A new business opportunity seems to have arisen for unscrupulous publishers wanting to make the most of the next research assessment exercise. The exercise will take account of articles and books...
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Russia with love
The Post-soviet Press Group of London University's School of Slavonic and East European Studies has answered the perplexing question of why diplomats are exempt from HIV-tests under Russia's new laws...
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Keyed up
John Maynard Smith, speculating on the appreciation of music at a conference last week, described his friend J. B. S. Haldane, eminent scientist, philosopher and one-time Communist Party member, who...